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Hi! I’m Nancy, and I want to thank you for taking the time to visit my blog! I’m a writer and designer, and my blog is about creative things I love doing…from baking and decorating to gardening and crafting. It’s also about different things that inspire and encourage me…Scripture, great quotes, books, music, and lifestyle tips. I hope you’ll find some ideas here that are helpful and that inspire you, too!

I love trying out and creating new recipes, so I hope you’ll find many here that you like! I don’t have any formal culinary training, so I’m not a food expert by any means. Most of my recipes are easy to make…if I can make them, you can too!

If you have any creative projects, recipes, or tips of your own you’d like to share or have feedback on any of my posts, please feel free to add a comment–I’d love to hear from you!

So glad I found your blog! I can’t wait to look around more. I used to work at a Christian book store and we sold lots of Day Spring cards. I was in charge of restocking and reordering them. Fun times :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog! I lived in KC in the late 80’s to early 90’s before I moved to work for DaySpring. I used to shop at several different KC Christian bookstores when I lived up there. Nice to hear from you, Emily! :)

I couldn’t seem to comment on your post about autumn wreaths or pumpkin recipes. I made your Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread this weekend and it was absolutely gorgeous! I have been searching for a recipe like this for many years after tasting something similar made by an American friend of my mum’s, she had a cinnamon glaze on hers too, which I think really makes it. So, thankyou so much! Your blog is wonderful and I am now following you. Have a great week. Love Linda x

Hi Nancy! Just wanted to drop a note to say I recently found your blog and have made three of your different banana breads in the past month (using up old bananas and leftover ingredients from the holidays). I love your recipes and the sort of no-fuss elegance to your recipes with pretty basic ingredients, but gourmet results! Thank you for sharing!

Hey Nancy – I’m English so we do all our measuring in grams/ounces etc, I was wondering whether there’s a certain size of ‘cup’ you use?! (My scales are also broken so would be useful to use cups to measure anyway!) Last time I tried it all went horribly wrong!! Thanks, Zoe x

Hi Zoe! I use a standard 8 oz. cup for liquid ingredients. Dry ingredients are a little different…1 cup is equal to about 250 ml…does that help? I found that information at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_cup. Hope that helps you out!

Hi Nancy,
A friend of mine shared your Lemon-Zucchini Loaf with Lemon Glaze with me and it looks delicious! She said it was yummy, I can’t wait to try it today because I have an abundant supply of zucchini from my garden (my 8 zucchini plants yielded so far to-date since April – 45!). I’m so happy I have another receipe for zucchini bread! Thank you for your wonderful blog…I can’t wait to explore it – cuz I saw banana bread (my all time fav!)
Thank you,
Norleen

Congrats on your Inspiring Blog Award! I found you through Angela at Veggie Vinyasa and thought I would pop on by to check out what you are up to! LOVE your blog. Have been drooling over your delicious recipes. Can’t wait to give them a go :) Thanks for sharing!

I’ve recently switched my food blog over to be self-hosted which I hope will make it more user-friendly in the future. As a result, if you were following Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen via email, WordPress, or using RSS feeds through Google Reader or some other way, you are no longer subscribed. If you wish to continue receiving future posts from my blog you will need to re-subscribe. Sorry for the inconvenience, Teresa.

Hi Teresa, I’ve been thinking about doing that myself! Please let me know how you like self-hosting, and what you think the pros and cons are–that would be very helpful to know! I will check out your new site–thanks for letting me know! :)

I just found your blog and got lost looking at all the wonderful treats you’ve made. I can’t wait to try some of them. Also, I like all of your cook book references. I don’t typically use them since there are so many and I often don’t know where to start but I found your blog helpful. Thanks so much.

Congratulations, Nancy! You have been awarded:
Best Moment Award
Sunshine Award
Versatile Blogger Award
I do not expect any action to be taken, or for you to generate a post (unless you wish to pass on the award nominations). Nevertheless, your blog has been awarded at:http://fae-magazine.com/2013/08/15/award-august-2013/
Enjoy your Awards! Fae.

I cannot appreciate more for your chocolate chip banana bread recipe.. I stumbled upon it on google and it’s seriously THE BEST. I make it for EVERYONE and noone have said they don’t like it. THANKS AGAIN! XOXO LYDIA

I just discovered your blog Nancy, and I love your posts and ideas they are unique and capture your creative passions and of course the photography is beautiful. Will definitely be keeping up with your work!

Hi Nancy, i don’t know if you know about this ‘Writing process blog tour’ i hadn’t heard of it before but it was fun to do and i had to nominate three people and i chose one of them to be you heres the link– http://maulshri25blog.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/writing-process-blog-tour/
I had been invited for this blog tour and my date was 2nd June. Your date would be 9th of June if you chose to participate.
Love Mauli Xx

Hi Nancy, I found your blog through Kloe’s blog. I liked the quote she got from your post about worry. I have enjoyed looking at your site, and am excited to follow you as we have several interests in common.

Hi Nancy. I just found your blog and I am really happy I did. I have been scrolling down quite a bit and I really like your content and your beautiful pictures. Looking forward to reading more.
Have a lovely day. Lou.